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Ze Bastille Day

We have a very active French community among Skype staff. And as July 14 (whoops… had June 14 here initially, thanks guys for pointing it out) is an important day for France (why? well go read the history books :) ), we had a Bastille day organized by ze hard-working Skype French Sans-Culottes featured on this picture.

Ze Sans Culottes

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Following is the original text from our intranet. (Editor’s note: we’re internally playing with video as you can read. Don’t ask for more, but stay tuned for more news later this year regarding video.)

… For your interest, The storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 was an event more important in the mythology of the French Revolution than in the actually history of it.

In memory of this storming event, we have set up for everyone@skype a special “snaily” program for today, including:

### Ze Virtual French Breakfast and French Apero

We’ll have loads of croissant et pains au chocolat in the morning and for ze aperitif plenty of saucissons, baguettes, camembert and vin rouge around 6 pm! And via Skype live video link a fantastic way to share and take part where ever you are. London patriots, If you’re making yourself a coffee in the kitchen or a nice glass of wine, don’t hesitate to share this live moment with our people in different offices round the world!

### Ze French Quizz

French are great players, we love games… you may have noticed over the last week :) We’re inviting you to take part of this little quiz to test your knowledge of France and more importantly to evaluate how thirsty you can be when it comes to French wine! First patriot to respond with the right answers to the questions below wins **a nice bottle of “Chateau La Pompe”**.

* Q1. How many French are working their 35 hours a week at Skype
* Q2. by which multiple was the British budget bigger than French one for the 2012 Olympics bid?
* Q3. What is the penetration of Skype in the French market?
* Q4. How many people in Skype are going to participate to that Quiz?

### Ze French Jokes Corner

3 people are interviewing in England. When it comes to the English test, the task is: build a sentence with the 3 following words “Green, Pink and Yellow.” The Belgium interviewee is going first: “I wake up in the morning, I eat a yellow banana, a green pepper and in the evening I watch the Pink Panther on TV”. The German interviewee goes next: “I wake up in the morning, I see the yellow sun, the green grass and I think to myself: I hope it will be a pink day”. Finally the French says: “I wake up in ze mornink, I hear ze phone:green… green… green… I pink up ze phone and I say “Yellow?”…

When God created the world, He gave to each country something. Some got the sun, some the sea, some mountains, some forests, etc. But at the end He noticed one country had everything, and He thought it wasn’t fair. So he added the French there…

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16 thoughts on “Ze Bastille Day

  1. philou155 said 2864 days ago

    july 14 , not june 14
    grret joke! butt dont make fun offf my accent everr again!
    (although i’m french, my french accent is terrible as you see)

  2. skullyfm said 2864 days ago

    Hehe… “Chateau La Pompe”.
    Did someone enjoy it?

  3. bertrandguyot said 2864 days ago

    What ? French workers at Skype !!! how lucky they are…I am gonna send my french resume if it is going on…in a bottle of wine

  4. will.payet said 2863 days ago

    IGTBTK. Met du gross son! Nom de dieu!

  5. benmottaz76 said 2863 days ago

    Lissen very carefully, I shall say zis only ounce…..

    Plenty of vin rouge for the apero… this idea must have come from ze French rouquine…. she can’t cook but she can surely open a good bottle of wine !!!

  6. djefoufou said 2863 days ago

    Amusant et pathétique à la fois d’ètre représenté de la sorte, à ce demander si la france à évoluer depuis le béret !!!

  7. ggnocchi said 2863 days ago

    Il faudrait que le prochain 14 juillet soit décrété Free SkypeOut Day !

    Camarades! La révolution du téléphone est en marche …

    ;)
    http://telecharger-skype-fr.com/

  8. andeeii said 2863 days ago

    Sis is une greht aydee, avec zeu redd wine. For zis wonderfuhl deh, ay vudd layk tou gift a grreht botteille frrom my cave; down zere ay heff somm verri fentestick botteilles of “Château Migraine 1873″.

    Sammbuddy interestet?

  9. hyemi0929 said 2862 days ago

    I want to do you and friend

  10. maubird said 2862 days ago

    Pas de commentaires particuliers mais je souhaite avoir un contact avec un “french speaking skypeur” qui pourrait me donner des informations sur le fonctionnement du programme “voice mail” auquel j’ai souscrit mais je n’arrive pas à enregistrer mon message d’acceuil et donc encore moins de l’écouter et je ne peux pas non plus écouter d’éventuels messages laissés sur ma boite vocale ! si quelqu’un parlant français pouvait m’appeler ce serait super. J’habite la Martinique et l’heure locale est GMT + 5. Merci d’avance.

  11. daniel3131 said 2860 days ago

    well i dont hav grandchoz 2 say koi mé j trouve that les jokes suck on va pa c laissé faire koi lol sa va the 1 who a inventé cette joke is tres doué j think. va sy j me break

  12. romzaf said 2860 days ago

    pour maubird:
    j’ai laissé message sur voicemail qui fonctionne, le répondeur s’affiche sur ton profil.
    pour ecouter: aller sur liste des appels ou sur historique et selectionner le message avec repondeur.
    pour ecouter: cliquer sur le bouton vert à la droite du message.(In order to play the message you need to press the round green “Play” button to the right of the message).

    pour plus d’info aller sur Communauté SkypeFR
    http://www.skypefr.com/forum

    bon skype et bravo à Jaanus.
    I’m pretty much excited by winning the nice bottle of “Chateau La Pompe”.

  13. thibaudc said 2858 days ago

    No comment: le trait est grossier, la caricature lourde…

  14. sbs-vix said 2856 days ago

    a vocês são franceses..me errei..que triste vocês não me entendem e eu não entendo vocês…VAI FICAR PARA A PRÓXIMA.
    MAS É INTERESSANTE….

  15. pulsar4069 said 2854 days ago

    Bonjour
    Je suis très heureux de savoir que des petits français font partie du staff de Skype
    Je constate que lorsque nous essayons de parler la langue de Shahespeare avec notre french accent c’est toujours un excellent sujet de raillerie .. bof ..le tout est de se faire comprendre…!
    Sujet plus sérieux :
    Je souhaiterais utiliser Skype plus intensément mais ma configuration WiFi ne me permet que des communications de très courtes durées ( 30 sec 1mn 2mn maximum )
    La com est ensuite interrompue
    Chercher l’erreur ?
    Is ze provider (Wanadoo in France)?
    Is my router (US robotic) ?
    Is my PC drivers ? what driver
    Is simply the compatibility between Skype application and WiFI system ?
    What’s your opinion about this problem ?
    Jacky Coussirat
    I live near Bordeaux..!

  16. bognon said 2854 days ago

    je suis très souvent sur skype à partire de 22h30 et j’aimerai converser avec des skyper en français ou en italien ciao

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